1. Pain and suffering; it can feel like punishment from an angry God, and we try to figure out the cause, to our own frustration.
  2. Fear and great joy at Jesus' resurrection! But also rejection and refusal.
  3. In this episode with Mike Cosper, we talk about grace and virtue. How do we "pursue virtue" and not let go of grace? We discuss the difference between self introspection by checking our own fruit, and confessing our sins.
  4. Today on the Almanac, we remember Claude Fleury and his role in both educational reform and church history.
  5. Today on the Almanac, we reflect on the life of Joy Davidman.
  6. Today on the Almanac, we talk about Erasmus, the Reformation, and Textual Criticism.
  7. Today on the Almanac, we head to the mailbag.
  8. Happiness in Slavery. We continue to read and discuss the parable of the Grand Inquisitor, in Fyodor Dostoevsky’s, The Brothers Karamazov. In this episode, the Grand Inquisitor details why Jesus’ rejection of Satan’s temptations in the wilderness doomed humanity.
  9. Waiting on God can seem like slow motion torture sometimes.
  10. Today on the Almanac, we tell the story of Bonhoeffer’s return from America to Hitler’s Germany.